The late, great Isaac Hayes was better known in later years for his film and television roles, especially that of the voice of Chef in the Parker/Stone animated comedy series South Park. While Hayes reached the pinnacle of his popularity and influence on western pop culture during the 1970's, his greatest body of work was produced before the peak ( Read more... )

The Isaac Hayes story (acting and culinary material omitted)

Isaac Hayes was born in the rural poverty of a sharecropper's family on August 20, 1942, in Covington, Tennessee, about thirty miles south of Memphis. Orphaned in infancy, he and his sister Willette were raised up by their maternal grandparents, Willie and Rushia Addie-Mae Wade… Hayes sang ( Read more... )